Oooh, TFIOS, E&P and Everyday – definitely agree with those! And Bridge to Terabithia! Those are all perfect. I’ve never heard of Stargirl, but from what I’m seeing on GoodReads, I’ll be reading it soon.

Jellicoe Road, Eleanor & Park and The Sky is Everywhere are all on my TBR list. I loved The Sea of Tranquility too! I enjoyed reading The Bridge to Terabithia as a kid. It was actually our book report for fourth grade! I’ve read Every Day but I found that it wasn’t for me.Top 10 Favorite Contemporary Romance NovelsMeet My Co-Blogger! 🙂

Great list! The Fault in Our Stars and Eleanor & Park and The Sea of Tranquility are some of my all-time favorite books regardless of the genre. I also really enjoyed The Sky is Everywhere and Everyday. Most of the others on your list are on my TBR, but I just haven’t had time to get to them. 🙂

I tend to shy away from Contemporary but if I did read it, I’d want to start with Melina Marchetta! I love love love her High Fantasy series, The Lumatere Chronicles! I mean, AMAZING! It kind of reads like a historical fiction/ realism fiction though. That’s how genius Marchetta’s writing is! Thanks for sharing her books. They are all added to my TBR list 🙂 John Green and Rainbow Rowell are also author’s I’d like to get to know.
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Such I great list. I love so many of the authors you picked: John Green, David Levithan, Rainbow Rowell and now … I can finally say Melina Marchetta. I finished Jellicoe Road over the weekend, and it was every bit as fantastic as you’ve been saying.

Eleanor and Park did it for me for Contemporary YA. When you feel you’ve read too much hot stuff (where people can’t wait to tear each other’s clothes off) because you think it’s a rite of passage AND foregoing this tacitly prescribed activity might mean there’s something wrong with you (must be the latent ocd tendencies, HA) Eleanor and Park is like a breath of fresh air. -Even- if there’s a smattering of extremely tame s*x.
In fact, I wouldn’t even call it s*x. Like the word ‘sex’ is too crude a word, esp for Eleanor and Park.
Rainbow Rowell managed to write about desire yet it came off pure and earnest. I think the right way to describe what they had was— Adoring, uncontaminated love.